Thursday, 13 August 2020

ON THIS DAY AUGUST 13 th


1937- Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces begin the Battle of Shanghai, a conflict that will last 3 months and involve 1 million troops

1942- Sadly, the 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb

1967 - "Bonnie and Clyde", directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released

1964-  Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West. They were to be the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

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